Wall Street Journal reviewers are having a devil of a job with Apple latey – they want to say the latest products are rubbish, but appear to stop short.

We noticed this yesterday with the iWatch, but it looks like the same thing applies to the new iMac. Ex Engadge hackette Joanna Stern appears to have faced the problem of a a turkey of a product

By telling us it was the future. You won't find it in Apple's advertisements, but the new MacBook is a time machine. It's much simpler than Doc Brown's DeLorean: All you have to do is look at it to observe the future—the future of the laptop, that is. With this machine, available starting Friday, Apple has imagined a laptop reduced to its essentials—a sharp, insanely thin screen, a flattened keyboard panel and a magical new glass trackpad. Removed from the wire-dependent past, all that remains on its edge are a jack for headphones and a single USB Type-C port.

"The 12-inch Retina display adds to the overall beauty. With the 2304x1440-pixel screen, photos look like they were painted on, and even boring text is nice to look at. Prepare for your eyes to be spoiled. Now when I go back to my MacBook Air's lower-res display, everything looks pixelated."

That amount of free advertising should get the Apple press office off the editor's back and hopefully they will not look beyond the first few paragraphs.Slowly Stern 's inner reviewer comes out and first she starts damning with faint praise. There is no touchscreen, not that she is complaining – the OS X isn't optimized for touch.

Strike one

The full-size keyboard is also different, though not necessarily better. Due to the thinness of the panel, Apple created a new mechanism under the keys to help with their feedback and bounce. The experience isn't as comforting as typing on my MacBook Air.

Strike two

And THEN what she calls the MacBook's real annoyances begin with that single USB Type-C port.

Don't get me wrong, this port itself is amazing. A new type of connector, it has bi-directional power, which means the same port is used to charge the laptop and to charge or connect to other peripherals like monitors or phones. It is also reversible, like the iPhone's Lightning jack, so no more having to flip around the cord to make sure it plugs in. But living with just one port— especially one that doesn't work with much yet—is painful.

Strike three

Apple should be sent to the changing room at this point but it is still getting bad. Stern's list goes on. You can't leave the charger at home because no one else will have one which is the same. The new MacBook's battery life conks out after seven hours. If you dare to actually use the thing, then web browsing will kill the battery in 6.5 hours.

In short the product is rubbish and if the iMac is the future it is a 12 monkey's world were nothing works and we are forced to scavenge.

I am an optimist I see a future where reviewers can actually tell the truth about a product without having to praise it to the skies first.

According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, it appears that AT&T and T-Mobile have filed a request with the FCC to seek approval of a $1 billion transfer in wireless spectrum from AT&T to T-Mobile as a result of its failed $39 billion mega-merger.

The transfer is expected to tie up loose ends following AT&T's bid to take over T-Mobile (ended December 19, 2011) by handing over spectrum, along with $3 billion in cash, to T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom AG.

“This additional spectrum will help meet the growing demand for wireless broadband services,” said Tom Sugrue, T-Mobile’s senior vice president for government affairs, in an emailed statement. “We hope the FCC will move swiftly to approve the license assignments.”

While Deutsche Telekom may be content with its $4 billion negotiation, the company has explicitly stated that there is "no Plan B" in the event that the merger fell through. The payment of $3 billion in cash to Deutsche Telekom "will only cover T-Mobile's expenses for 12 to 24 months," said Wolfgang Specht, an analst at WestLG AG in Dusseldorf. If T-Mobile fails to find a partner within the next two years, it ultimately risks failing to generate enough operating revenue to cover its own spending.

It’s not a secret that Apple’s stock has seen better days and prices have been on the decline ever since Steve Jobs passed away. However, the Wall Street Journal claims to know the reasons behind this.

The company recently dropped 2 percent; to about $387, the lowest number since early October.

J.P. Morgan analysts attributed the drop to iPad manufacturing cuts and related warnings, rise of the Kindle Fire, stock shorting, etc. Furthermore, S&P equity analysts downgraded Apple from “strong buy” to “buy.” They attributed the drops to growing competition, Jobs' death, lack of the usual excitement about Apple's products as well as fears that the company may not innovate as much as it did in the past.

As much as it is not nice to speak ill of the dead, we must says that it increasingly seems as if Jobs had a spell on his outfit, which was broken by his death. Well, at least they will finally wake up and see the company for what it really is, a company, rather than a cult.

They have not buried Steve Jobs yet, but the Tame Apple press appears to have turned on its favourite company. While the press is full of tributes to Jobs which are just bizarre - he did not invent the mouse, the PC, the tablet or the smartphone - the Tame Apple Press is being less than nice about Apple's future without its Messiah.

According to Reuters, death of Apple's "inspirational leader" is likely to have a deep impact on the maker of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, giving major rivals a greater chance to catch up with the technology giant. Reuters claims that Steve Jobs' creative spirit was so closely tied to the fortunes of Apple that his death means everything is going to drop down the loo.

Kim Young-chan, an analyst at Shinhan Investment in Seoul said that it was "Jobs' Apple, not Apple's Jobs." Simon Liu, deputy investment officer of Polaris Group's fund unit said that Apple no longer has someone as creative and ambitious as Jobs that they can rely on.

We noticed that there was a change amongst the Tame Apple Press when, for the first time, it reported accurately that the iPhone 4S was the same as the iPhone 4 and a waste of dosh. There were some acceptions.

The New York Times loyally waded into the doubters as did Cnet, but the Wall Street Journal was, for the first time negative. Reuters, which normally would be wetting itself about how well a new iPhone was doing admitted that the iPhone 4S failed to wow fans and investors and some analysts said the rare loss of momentum could give rivals room to push their products.

A Wall Street analyst claims that Chipzilla will buy the DRAM maker Micron Technology in a move to diversify its product offerings.

ThinkEquity analyst Krishna Shankar wrote in a note to clients that Intel will make a significant move and acquire MU in order to bring DRAM and NAND technology in-house and sell platform solutions. From Micron's viewpoint, it gives the company the ability to be part of a platform company and extract higher margins from the memory business by selling platform solutions.

Intel will get more things to shove under the bonnet of smartphones and tablets, which may offset the lower price of mobile applications processors versus PC processors. He said that Intel could also design platform processor/memory solutions with lower power, higher performance, smaller form factor.

Micron Technology, which is one of the largest memory chip makers in the world, makes DRAM chips, flash memory chips, and memory modules.